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本帖最后由 EZ0928 于 2015-9-8 23:40 编辑
Issue 18: The well-being of a society is enhanced when many of its people question authority.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
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Do challenging authority can enhance the well-being of a society? I think it [we] can draw different conclusions in different occasions. For scientists, questioning the research findings proposed by the predecessors or their peer researchers can promote the progress of the science and technology. For citizens, challenging the policies made by the political leaders can facilitate [make] the country to be more democratic. However, when it is comes to drivers or pedestrians questioning to the authority of traffic regulations, the society may be in a chaos state and thus the well-being of which may be decreased. [这句话有点怪怪的,我会写成 As for drivers and pedestrians, questioning the authority of traffic regulations will make the society become a chaos, and thus decrease the well-being of the society.]
To start with, it is helpful [beneficial] to enhance the development of the science and technology that scientists question the previous research findings which may imply [find out] some errors due to the limited technology in that period. As many academic papers are accessible to everyone now, researchers can easily download the papers published by others through internet. They can propose their questions and challenges to the researchers when they found [find时态一致] something written in these papers are unclear or wrong, and thus the development of the science and technology can be promoted with these challenges. At last, the well-beings of this society can be improved. [内容可以,建议可以再举比较specific的例子]
Moreover, the country will be more democratic if citizens challenge the policies set by political leaders with reasonable ways. Take the homosexuals as an example, [Take sth as an example.(断句)/ Take sth for example, S+V+O] The same-sex marriages are prohibited in many countries, which is unjust for homosexuals. After American homosexuals’ numbers of challenges of marriage law [名词写太长了 建议可写成numbers of challenges of marriages law from American homosexuals], same-sex marriage laws have been enacted in American this year, which is a big progress for America. So if we want the same-sex marriage to be legalized in our country, we should take actions to challenge the marriage law with just ways, making the society be more democratic. [建议内文提到same-sex marriages跟democratic的关系,并在结尾处拉回你的主题句]
However, the society may be disordered if drivers or pedestrians challenge and disobey traffic regulations. As we all know, traffic regulations are made to help the traffic to be shipshape. If drives don’t [不建议写缩写 do not] stop their car or pedestrians came [come] across the road when the traffic light is red, some tragedies, for example traffic accidents [觉得这句话有点多余], may occur and further result in traffic jams. So in this occasion, challenging the authority will not enhance the well-being of this society.
Overall speaking, whether this argument hold true or not depends on the occasions it discussed, when scientists challenge the authority of previous findings or citizens question the authority of laws with just ways [justice], the well-being of the society can be improved. However, when drivers or pedestrians challenge traffic regulations, this argument may not hold true.
论点由不同的角度去探讨,十分的到位,但是论证可以在具体一点,会更有说服力。
建议: 段落字数的比例上,中间三段尽量维持差不多的行数。
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Argument #53
The following appeared in a health magazine.
"The citizens of Forsythe have adopted more healthful lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there has been a fourfold increase in sales of food products containing kiran, a substance that a scientific study has shown reduces cholesterol. This trend is also evident in reduced sales of sulia, a food that few of the most healthy citizens regularly eat."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
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The author of the health magazine argues that Forsythe citizens have a healthier lifestyle now according to the survey, increasing sales of more healthy food, and decreasing sales of less healthy food. In order to assess this argument, more information about the issues discussed above.
Firstly, the survey shows that the citizens’ eating habits have changed and been closer to the government’s recommendations. Nevertheless, the survey is not cogent since it does not provide the exact number of the populations in Forsythe who did the survey and how does the survey progress. What if there are only ten people of the citizens who have taken the survey or there are only one question on the survey such as “do you eat healthier than before?” Accordingly, without these information, we cannot tell the survey can strengthen the argument.
Secondly, the author implies that the increasing sales of food containing kiran can bolster that the citizens have a healthier life. We need more information about this phenomenon, such as when does the increasing number compare with and whether the products are eaten by the citizens. Maybe the sale number is compared with a period of time, in which the food products containing kiran, do not grow well and thus not sold well or maybe the food products are bought for the citizens’ pets or as a gift for their friends out of the city. Besides, we also do not know whether or not the scientific study is convincing. More information about the study, such as where the study come from and who did the study is needed to be mentioned in the argument.
Last but not least, the author suggests that the decreasing sales of sulia can be the evident of his/her statement. However, like the increasing sales of food which contains kiran, we need the consider the weather situation, and the period of time of this decreasing sales. Moreover, sulia might contain some special nutrition which cannot be obtain from other food, although the argument shows that it contains few of the most healthy components. In other words, decreasing consuming sulia might let the citizens less healthy because of lacking the crucial nutrition. As a result, without the information, the assumption is unwarranted.
All in all, more information about the recent survey, the increasing sales of kiran-containing food, the scientific study, and reducing sales of sulia is needed. Therefore, we can see whether or not the argument is cogent. |
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